Kids spend hours every weekday in school, they bring home piles more homework than I ever had to at their age. My 7 year old has about 30 minutes of written work M-Th and 15-30 minutes of online work. Then they have their few chores to do, weekly sports and instrument practice... I'd say that plenty of their day is already scheduled, busy and "educational." If they want to veg out in front of a video game or tv show for a couple of hours, let them for fark's sake. Every single moment of their lives doesn't have to be crammed with structured activities and contrived programming meant to produce good little workers. And then people wonder why depression and anxiety seem to dominate so many peoples' lives. Let your damn kids relax and be kids.

Mark Ratner:I wish adult programming was more educational. I miss the old history channel, learning channel, and national geographic. Too much crap "reality" shiat these days.

I figure out would cost basically nothing to just have a channel (or even an on demand service) that shows old History Channel stuff from back when they had shows about history. Why can't they make this happen?